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By Steve Finch and John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, November 15, 2010; 9:43 PM
RANGOON, BURMA - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday...
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Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she is ready for talks with all groups to achieve national reconciliation.A day after her release...
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Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe has arrived in India for a controversial five-day visit, which has been condemned by rights groups.
The junta leader is...
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Burma has started on a nuclear-weapons programme, according to a documentary based on evidence from a soldier who defected.
Major Sai Thein Win provided Norway-based...
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Myanmar’s ruling junta chief confirmed Monday that the country’s first general elections in two decades will be held this year but gave no date for the...
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Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official...
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Previewing the new US Burma policy with the 17-member UN Group of Friends on Burma in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US will pursue a policy of...
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Some weep because they part,
And languish broken hearted,
And others - O my heart !
Because they never parted.
...American poet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich...
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At least 20 people have been arrested in the Burmese town of Taunggok after staging a silent protest on the 20th anniversary of a major uprising.
They were detained...
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By Ashin Metacarra
The United Nations has been diplomatically trying to persuade Burma leaders for a long time. They tried by sending envoys. They talked with beautiful...
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Women around the world have launched an ambitious international program entitled \’Panties for Peace\’ in which they would donate panties to the Burmese...
made popular May 31 2008
Burma has been named as the most persistent user of child soldiers, with thousands in its armed forces - some as young as 11, Human Rights Watch says.
made popular May 21 2008
Cyclone survivors in Burma are still begging for help. The international community cannot expect anything positive from a government that failed to even warn its...
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What is happening in Burma is unconscionable! Cyclone Nargis made landfall on May 2, carving a path of destruction throughout the country, and yet here we are 13 days...
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The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...
made popular May 13 2008
The frequency of recent natural disasters, including the cyclone in Burma, an earthquake in China, tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma and Georgia, volcano eruptions in...
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A new terror is stalking the survivors of Burma’s cyclone, as villagers in the deeply superstitious country tell of being haunted by the ghosts of those who perished...
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According to The Sun, the death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 if the ruling military junta still does not allow foreign aid into the country....
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Natural disasters aren’t genocides. Or are they? Because in Myanmar that is exactly what is happening. Last week a major cyclone tore through that impoverished...
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As if the poor Burmese people hadn’t already suffered enough under a brutally oppressive, communist regime, they suffered further loss and damage at a...
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Tropical cyclone Nargis has brought incalculable disaster in Burma killing around 15,000, and counting. The military junta has issued a rare appeal for international...
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Fifty-four Burmese migrants have been found dead after suffocating in a lorry smuggling them into southern Thailand.
More than 100 people were packed into a container...
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Burma’s generals intend to block the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from ever leading her country, according to leaked copies of a new constitution...
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Life has been hard as ever. No change or hope has come yet to us.
People no longer talk about politics for fear of arrest, accusations, safety and other frightening...
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Burma’s underground opposition intends to launch a campaign of civil disobedience to maintain the pressure for change on the military junta.
Moving daily...
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# The non-violent protests by Buddhist monks have threatened the very foundation of the twenty year military junta rule in Burma.
# The army has ruled Burma for about...
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# The situation in Burma is deteriorating as non-violent protests expand and the government response escalates.
# The Security Council met to discuss the crisis, but...
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Burnt villages, displaced civilians, unbridled human rights abuse, spread of diseases, drug trafficking, robbed freedom of expression, mismanagement of resources tells...
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